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opiniate

/əˈpɪnieɪt/

opiniate verb: to hold an opinion, especially in a persistent manner.

Verb

opiniate (third-person singular simple present opiniates, present participle opiniating, simple past and past participle opiniated)

  1. (obsolete) To hold an opinion, especially in a persistent manner.
    • If 'twere granted, that in some one, or more places the power hath been originally in the People, yet it will never appeare by the originalls of all, or of this Kingdome, that in all or in this it was so; or if men will still opiniate, and affirme against the e∣vidence of the Lawes, and...1649, Henry Hammond, o the right honourable, the Lord Fairfax, and his councell of vvarre
    • Men are punished by too-much opiniating themselves in a place without reason1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Forms of opiniate

third-person singular presentopiniates
present participleopiniating
past participleopiniated
pastopiniated

Questions about opiniate

What does opiniate mean?
Opiniate means to hold an opinion, especially in a persistent manner.
What part of speech is opiniate?
Opiniate is a verb.
How do you pronounce opiniate?
Opiniate is pronounced /əˈpɪnieɪt/.
What is the past tense of opiniate?
The past tense of opiniate is opiniated.

Words near opiniate in the dictionary

  1. oping
  2. opiniaster
  3. opiniasters
  4. opiniastrety
  5. opiniastrous
  6. opiniate
  7. opiniated
  8. opiniative
  9. opiniatively
  10. opiniativeness
  11. opiniator

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